There. Now you don’t have to say it. But we kind of like this on her, we have to admit. Like all Olsen spawn, she’s deathly afraid of looking young or sexy, so this suits her. Sure, it gives off a mature vibe and she looks like a religious cult member but sometimes you’ve just gotta let someone be themselves, you know? We wish she’d dress her age, but that’s apparently never going to be part of the game plan so she might as well wear something striking.

We have a feeling the kittens will disagree, however. And yes, the limp hair is sad.

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IN! She’s working within her wheelhouse!

OUT! Betty White would turn this dress down for being too old-fashioned!

Out!! Without the sleeves, this dress would have been spot on. She is just the colorful version of her older sisters…down to the bag.

fireontiger

No. And why is she carrying what looks like a brief case? Really?

MilaXX

Cause she’s pimping her sister’s bags. They look nice but none of their line is the delicate clutch type bag that is suited for the RC events.

Judy_J

OUT. I like the black version of this dress. The red is hideous. Looks like a giant blood clot.

http://www.facebook.com/janet.selman Janet Selman

Out. Drowning in medical waste.

Aly Light

You don’t think the fit looks a little off…? Or that the accessories were done all wrong…? I really want to give it to her, because I agree that this dress could work on her, but something is not working here. I hate to do it to you, Lizzie, but it’s an OUT.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HIZ7S2FRLC52NXARXQ4ERHNOGE Liz

So limp and sad.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=49702581 Susan Bullard Mayer

The sister-wife vibe of the dress isn’t the problem. The problem is that someone played a mean joke on Elizabeth by gluing her arms down.

Vaniljekjeks

In. She’s a chic sister wife.

schadenfreudelicious

I am getting a distinct Handmaid’s Tale vibe off of this one….OUT

mstzilla

You are SO right! Minus the sheer parts, of course. I say OUT also (although perhaps she’s never read it – but she should!)

paginatrix

I’m too old for this stuff. I was 13 in 1977 when all the girls wore this dress (in pink or off-white or lavendar) for Special Occasions. Anything that gives me junior high flashbacks is an automatic OUT.

Patti Lever

Agree! Had a few versions of this dress growing up in the 70’s.

norseofcourse

Gunnie Sax, anyone?

RebeccaKW

Actually, I like it. The color is good for her, the gown isn’t really that ‘old.’ I wish she’d done something else with her hair and maybe had a little more color on her lips, but I think she looks cute. In.

girliecue

If the Amish have prostitutes, this is what they’d wear.

TieDye64

Easy OUT. That’s a whole lotta retina burning ruffles there and the bag is an odd choice here.

Rebecca Johnson

It’s less Sister-Wife and more Brothel-Madam-In-Training. Hence the little briefcase with all her notes.

http://twitter.com/PhDKnitter marlie

I kinda like it*. I like the color, and I like the purse. I think the sheerness in the top and sleeves brings it back from the brink of being too sister-wife-ish.

*Disclaimer: ON HER.

ETA: The hair looks terrible, but the makeup looks great (and that smile!).

TheOriginalLulu

Yeah, I love how she’s always smiling, unlike her sourpuss sisters.

http://twitter.com/delysia_lafosse Delysia LaFosse

I kind of agree with you guys. I sort of like it on her, in the context of what she usually wears. I suppose it’s an IN.

dschubba

Michelle Duggar’s lingerie

AthenaJ

*shudder*

Rand Ortega

Dayum.

oatmealpie

She’s smiling. I didn’t know Olsens could do that.

http://profiles.google.com/sara.e.munoz Sara Munoz

OUT. I really don’t think I need to explain.

AlexisPayne

IN!

VeryClaire

Horrendous. How can you even put it to a vote?

granddelusion

That’s just awful. Out.

SusiePamudji

She has one foot IN and one foot OUT. Why the briefcase-like bag? Sad hair is sad. Love the dress though.

http://twitter.com/#!/Space_Kitty Space Kitty

Giant tube of lipstick.

OUT.

Dani Colman

I saw her at a Q&A for Martha Marcy May Marlene, and she was wearing adorable red skinny jeans and a cute pink jacket. I think she might just be a lady who does streetwear better than formalwear.

The dress has possibilities, with different hair, jewelry and bag. But potential alone does not make an in, so OUT.

http://profiles.google.com/dchockeyguy Trevor Burroughs

OUT! the black was much better.

kittenwithaquip

Why does she look like the eldest Olsen? The twins look closer to their real age than she does, and that’s kind of saying a lot.
Oh, and OUT. Too much dress, clunky bag (at least as far as being paired with that dress) and sad, sad hair. Take the sleeves off the dress and chop it off above the knee and she might actually look her age. If she had taken just a few minutes to even slick her hair back into a low ponytail or knot, she’d look so much better.

moppet

I was always taught if you can’t say anything nice, say nothing at all. So…she has a lovely smile.

MK03

She’s so pretty. Why does she insist on looking so frumpy??

MilaXX

I think it’s genetic

http://twitter.com/Nancer Nancer

Maybe it’s genetics?

kimmeister

I actually like the dress on her, but the hair and bag are what are dragging this look down.

http://profile.yahoo.com/M2D277JWFM4BUI7PWTTGYM67XI Mathilde

IN. It’s totally her style.

In_Stitches

She looks happy which is going a long way towards making it work. The color suits her as well. I just think someone of her height (I assume she’s under 6′ 2″) needs SOME skin somewhere. Flash an ankle or something.

TheOriginalLulu

Nah, the sister-wives would never wear such a vibrant color, especially not red. I think it it was Warren Jeffs who banned any and all red garments from his compound.

Anywho, I think the dress would have been good had they stopped the ruffles just at knee-length. As is it’s a bit much. And the briefcase makes no sense with this sort of look. It’s a shame because the color and shape of the dress do suit her.

Amy Ellinger

She has such a pretty smile. I can forgive the dress, since she actually went for the color.

http://twitter.com/Nancer Nancer

You are right about her smile – very pretty.

greyhoundgirl

Sister-wife in 1975. Awful. Out.

Rand Ortega

Prom 1978. The briefcase is totally wrong. For the dress & the occasion.

sweetlilvoice

Her face and makeup look good, very pretty. Dress…could do better.

http://twitter.com/Nancer Nancer

I think the black dress looks lovely on the model, but the red version looks cheap. And I know she is a very thin and lovely woman, but this dress makes her look wide. I guess that there are some clothes that only models should attempt to wear. And this is exhibit A, unfortunately. I really want to like this, just so I can be on team TLo – but sadly, it’s not to be.

mjude

i havent been nice all week but i am going to give her an IN. i want the purse.

Sara__B

The proper length and a different hair style and styling would have taken this from “sister wife” to “lovely”. As usual, the devil’s in the details. OUT.

http://blue-again.myopenid.com/ blue

OUT. Very interesting point about the Olsen sisters being deathly afraid of looking young and sexy. I never thought of it that way. I just thought they had bad taste. Why *do* they wear these whole-body covering outfits? I wonder if it’s because growing up in the limelight they were so exposed and now they just want to cover up all the time. Hmmm. *ponders*

Lizzie Joy

It looks like 9/10ths of the bridesmaids gowns I’ve worn in my life.

http://twitter.com/riosramblings Michael Rios

For her I’m going to say it’s an IN, otherwise it would be an OUT.

http://twitter.com/Kerry_McC Kerry McCombs

Out. Too many ruffles. And the way she is holding that bag is just weird. It’s like she has a tiny briefcase with her on the red carpet.

joything

What makes this dress age anybody who wears it – including that model – is the sleeves. Remove the sleeves, and you’ve got a gown that’s prom-y but okay. It’s similar to the gown Valentino made for Livia Firth for the Oscars this year (remember TLo’s immortal “her tits are being held up by two wall-mounted soap dishes”?), same color, same 1970s feel.

bubbles_brule

This dress kind of reminds me of the dress Jamie Lee Curtis wore in True Lies that she tore the sleeves/hem off of to look more like a French prostitute.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Julie-Chase/731391326 Julie Chase

NOOOOOOO

Judy_S

OUT. Not so much the dress in itself but the sister-wife posture and smile she is assuming. It looks like she’s apologizing.

crash1212

I actually like the dress and LOVE the bag…the hair is making me sad though. All in all – I’m going with IN just because she chose it in red and didn’t go with black. She’s the racy sister-wife.

She gets an out for for the lizard (wrong) medium-sized (wrong) short-handled (wrong) bag.

lesmaha

Out.

Stubenville

It’s a 1950’s lampshade. Curiously paired with half a briefcase (which looks like a prop from Brazil.) Oh well, at least she skipped the zombie eye makeup and doesn’t look terrified of the camera, unlike her sisters.

In if she’d kept the black and done her hair like the model. Out because you’ll never win against R. Mara this way, E. Olsen!

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_64HSRZWCSJ5RBFGCWDLFQOICYM G

How cute she could have looked with styled hair and without a briefcase. Beautiful smile but still very OUT.

http://journostyle.blogspot.com Alana

IN! I think there’s something to be said for dressing in what you like and makes you feel gorgeous, even if it isn’t what is normally worn on the red carpet. You can tell she loves it, and I like that.

altalinda

I’m all for modesty, but this goes too far. And it’s old-fashioned.

CQAussie

Oh geez no, OUT.

karena10

Out. It looks like an ugly prom dress from the 70s.

http://twitter.com/dollsaga Helen

out, and shut the door behind.

lrhoff

Hideous. Bad enough in black, but the dress in red is just tacky. I do like the bag, though.

Snailstsichr

I was going to say something about how bizarre this bag looks with this dress, but I see almost every other poster has said the same thing.

Pannyx

In, can’t say she looks bad, and she will definitely get heads turning.

JimMcC

Some things can’t be explained. Like why I can only make arguments about why this should be out and yet have no doubt in my mind that it absolutely qualifies as an IN.

http://twitter.com/lenabena_ Elena

I’m sorry, but this girl is my age, and she needs to start acting like it. She can save the sister-wife dresses for when she’s much, much older and her skin hangs lower.

So that’s an OUT, if that wasn’t clear.

DominoEstella

Geesh! Get a hair job for the love of christ. Surely you can afford it.

http://twitter.com/AShinyOConnor A Shiny O’Connor

Love the dress. Love the bag. Not together. OUT.

http://twitter.com/asciident Melissa Brogan

So, so OUT.

LesYeuxHiboux

If the sister-wives were running the best little whorehouse in Utah, maybe.

prettybigkitty

My first thought was expensive gunny sack. Out.

PeggyOC

Out. Just for combining this dowdy dress with that office only bag. Yerrgh. That’s a cute purse for going to work, not a cute purse for the red carpet.

The dress wouldn’t have looked so bad without that odd briefcase looking bag.

cleep1000

I know, right? That briefcase ruins whatever chance this dress had.

j_anson

OUT. I love the dress in black on the model, but it’s not working here. The bright red loses the sense of delicacy the black version had, and it’s either not fitting right or just not her dress, because it’s making an Olsen look… solid? Puffy? Upholstered? Whatever.

BeeBeauNYC

OUT – that dress has one of Chloe Sevigny’s personalities written all over it.

Vanessak69

Out. She needs a wheelhouse upgrade.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_F73LIJ3SJGI5AJQMXMWXCKILHI Pamela

LOVE that shoulder bag! AS a shoulder bag, that is. The dress looks like a Goodwill prom dress.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ENBX3563Q4ZNCVRGSJVFIB7OAA Thom

OUT. This was the wrong shade to pick for the dress: the flashbulbs totally wash out any detail, and the fabric of the sleeves look barely discernible from the dress, never mind one tier from the next. The hair is without effort, and the handbag feels more like a briefcase (I’d say it contains either pamphlets or the Sunday school lesson plan).

ballerinawithagun

Never wear red on the Red Carpet. But she is so pretty. Horrible bag for evening. Whoops, she was trying to be real, can’t afford another bag.

http://eclectictsunami.blogspot.com/ Cassie

I like it. And yes, she dresses way too covered-up, but I like that she really cultivates her own look. Most won’t agree with me, I expect, but I’m giving her an IN on this one.

In. Although it is too conservative at least she went with a vibrant color. A for effort.

StrandedFashionista

At first I was like, ‘OH, it looks better in black…” then, after flipping back and forth for a while between the two looks I realized that nobody could make this look good. Sorry, little Olson, OUT.

Kyle Crawford

The love child of Laura Ingalls WIlder and Dorothy Zbornak on her way to a business meeting at a Mormon Church.

Lina_bee

She really rocks the red, but this totally underlines how completely strange this season’s Valentino is. I mean, who is meant to be wearing these dresses? They ALL look like late Victorian/early Edwardian-era costumes — not like something people actually wear.

TheOtherChristina

Sister-wife, really? I was thinking brothel accountant.

I don’t mind this, but I don’t like it either. And that hair is not okay.

Stefanos Mantyla

Gorgeous dress on the model, but on her, it just reads as too much dress. It still has its good points, but in all, I think this is an OUT, since it is not quite IN.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OSYAJATXUH3QX7ZDDF52GXG4PU Janie R

Outer space out!!

bellafigura1

Truly terrible.

Filing_and_giving_things_names

Oh no. Much worse than sister wife. Handmaid! You’re OUT, Offred.

butterflysunita

Awful. Easy OUT.

PaulaBerman

It looks like the thing you’d put over the toilet paper roll in a whore house. OUT.

demidaemon

If she had worn the black version, I would have said it was matronly. But the red suits her and is quite vibrant. IN.

http://twitter.com/democracydiva Democracy Diva

In, but lose the purse.

Sophie Collier

I just don’t like the color. I mean, I DO like the color, but not in this dress. It’s just toooooo toooooo much red rufflage. The black works better. Also, this looks like a Florence Welch dress. Still, it’s not ugly by any means, so I will give her an IN, limp hair notwithstanding.

sarct

At least, unlike her sisters, she smiles.

Nayasabrina

It would work if the waist were better fitted, the sleeves schuzzed up, the hair washed and put in an updo, the bag miniaturized and in a different finish, uh….

OUT

http://profiles.google.com/phyllis.craine Phyllis Craine

She gets a pass from me, I think she trying to work a modern take on Ossie Clark/Biba 70’s. It’s too bad we’re so anesthetized by “sexy” that anything else is seen as dowager fashion.

http://twitter.com/Eovaai Eovaai

OUT. Just too much. It makes my eyes tired.

http://needtherapy.tumblr.com/ skadi1

Too much sleeve, not enough cleavage. And that bag is entirely wrong. Out out out. Too bad…I like the skirt.

poggi

I like it on the model, and it’s not the red color that I dislike or the fact that it is so covered up but I do not like it on her. If you have any bust, the ruffle on top adds too much volume. I think this would be great on someone very thin to give more volume to the hip and bust. It just doesn’t create a nice shape on her. Out.

Lisa Kramp

Are you kidding me? I wore that dress in blue to a senior prom in 1977! Hair, dress, bag…blech to all of it!

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=27432316 Ally Monge

Purse looks terrible with the dress. BUT I kind of dig the dress. It is a lot of dress, but she looks good so why not? She seems to often go the Olivia Wilde route of be as covered up as possible on random occasions, but hey at least the sleeves are sheer. IN for progress!

PeaceBang

That’s, like, 7 yards of ugly red chiffon of OUT. Horrible bag, too.

KrateBay

OK, TLo, why did you not pick on the bag? ‘Cuz the bag’s the worst. She’s taking a mini-briefcase to a Grand Chefs’ dinner? What, is she going to whip out a P&L statement during dinner?

sleah_in_norcal

but sister wives never wear red. unless they are posessed by satan. also, no black. and yeah, it’s matronly but it’s juvenile at the same time. with all the chiffon ruffles and the peter pan collar. all of this being neither here nor there, it’s ugly. OUT.

eta: oops! the “peter pan collar” was just an optical illusion caused by the black chiffon folding over the runway models prominent collar bones. it must have been the hot toddy…

http://twitter.com/Merneith Merneith

Out. It looks like something her sisters would wear, and that’s not a compliment. The handbag is an especially bad touch. The long limp hair is bad too.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1052062518 Megan Moore

I really like the dress, although I prefer the black or another color, just not this garish red. I’m going to say IN even though it’s not perfect. The hair is a sad, limp mess.

unbornfawn

OUT

nancy

Out. Way too much dress, she looks like Carrie’s wedding cake. With a mini-briefcase.

Beth Kenton

This resembles the dress I wore for my Bat Mitzvah —- in 1973!!!!

OUT!

NurseEllen

I was trying to imagine changing something about the dress to make it more palatable, and no matter what I changed, it never improved. She is so OUT, if for nothing else than narrow fashion horizons. Non-sexy & non-revealing is one thing, but this horror is an affront to all dresses everywhere.

lonepear

Toilet paper cosy.

plinkiedoodle

Sister-Wife! Ohhhhh, I feel much better.

BigWhiteGrannyPanties

OUT OUT OUT. Yes she looks like an old hag. Dammit.

RzYoung

That Mara-bot did it better

http://vhanna26.typepad.com Vera

I love the purse, but the paring with that dress doesn’t work. Of course, the dress doesn’t work either. OUT.

jjfg

At least it’s red – I give her some credit for that. Might have been cute in a spring pattern without the sleeves or the bottom three tiers. As is, no. OUT.

formerlyAnon

This IS grading on the Olsen curve: in.

But in WHAT universe does that purse work with the dress?

miagain

I know… it looks like she brought her lunch!

http://twitter.com/TMamBo Therese Bohn

Sad bridesmaid from 1972. Out.

Shoelover1512

I don’t hate it, but I HATE the purse with it…ewww so I have to go with OUT. The purse ruins it completely for me

elemspbee

Love this dress. I want it.
oh, YES. it’s in. Her lit’l girl pose is incommensurate with the dress but this dress is prarie-rockin sexi.

marilyn

Out. This dress is strictly from the 1960’s, and not in a good way.

kathryn_dc

This looks like Jamie Lee Curtis’ dress in “True Lies” before she tore stuff off to make it hot. Out.

Anathema_Device

Out. The ruffles and long sleeves are way too Mandrell Sisters Holiday Special. Not that she has go the slutty Vegas partier route, but this is SO MUCH red chiffon on her. And that bag is horrible with the dress.

http://www.facebook.com/sorana.tarmu Sorana Tarmu

Sad all, in spite of the color. OUT.

http://twitter.com/monsterhoodie laurel fiske

In! This is the first time I’ve seen her Not look boxy in something, it works for her!

Tatiana Luján

Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman in chiffon

Warmheartedgirl Seattle

Everything is wrong. The dress is just awful, the bag is cute but does NOT go with that dress, her hair is a mess! OUT.

Patricia Gillett

Out. It’s like that one Little House on the Prairie episode that had the brothel in it.

http://www.facebook.com/aboutelle Ashleigh Boutelle

The dress is fabulous, but why the luggage??

Louise Bryan

70s prom for shy girls

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1316070988 Roey Thorpe

OUT. I just don’t see anything in about it.

CharCrop

OUT uncles! Even her hair is dreary! What is wrong with you guys today?

librarygrrl64

OUT. Sorry, there can be no other answer.

little9

i concur. i don’t understand it, but i accept.

ccm800

OUT!!!!!!!!! She looks like a floor lamp

CatherineRhodes

IN

oohsparkley!

I kind of like it. Don’t have to be sexy all the time. in.

oohsparkley!

I kind of like it. Don’t have to be sexy all the time. in.

ThaliaMenninger

Awful. Not because it’s not sexy or skinalicious, but because it’s ugly. Like a red wedding cake that’s melting. And wrinkled.